Why do people still use VBA?

Re:Why do people still use VBA? by isilofi on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:47AM (#38276542)

- It allows a user to easily extend their current work environment (i.e. MS Office applications). Other languages and IDEs could do that, too, but not so easily. This allows users to somewhat more gracefully extend their documents/data and knowledge instead of starting all over again with a "proper" programming language/environment.

- I would not call it fast or resource-efficient, but fast enough and efficient enough for most unsophisticated purposes.

- No red tape for installation, IT cannot (easily) disable it, isn't an extra line item on any bill

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Re:Why do people still use VBA? by layer8 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:58AM (#38276636)

It’s fast and resource-efficient in that it doesn’t need to start up a comprehensive extra runtime environment like the CLR, and doesn’t need double the memory like GC languages tend to do, and is faster than many interpreted languages due to its P-code and its tight native integration, not needing an additional interop layer to communicate with its environment.

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